tormented - Story 152023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More purple, Uncle Mark!" Clara squealed, her small hand reaching for the crayon box. Mark plastered on a smile, his chest tightening. The subject of the drawing: a creature with three eyes and a crooked grin. It was a familiar face.

He had started sleeping with the lights on, a small, childish act that made him feel pathetic. The shadowy corners of his apartment seemed to shift, the air thick with an unseen presence. He jumped at every creak, every unexpected sound.

The next day, Clara presented him with a picture. The creature was holding a balloon, and in the balloon, a tiny, terrified version of himself. He felt a tremor in his hands as he crumpled the drawing.

Emotion: tormented

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -3.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion tormented. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 tormented stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the tormented emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the tormented vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`无法`	0.406
`😞`	0.399
`每一次`	0.378
`無法`	0.369
`S`	0.353

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.803
`de`	-0.755
`a`	-0.407
`B`	-0.404
`l`	-0.354